Image: ESA - ESA's missions to the Sun Understanding Science Our Home: The Earth and the Solar System From the bizarre world of the very small, the subatomic particles that make up everything we know, we turn our attention to the macro world, namely our sun and the objects which orbit it. In this case, […]

From toys to surveillance to autonomous flight on another planet, robots and drones are becoming a part of life in the 21st century. We are on the threshold of advances in AI and universal surveillance that will bring benefits and risks to society. It is time to discuss the implications of these new elements in […]

Big Data, Machine Intelligence, and the Human Cognition   There is an interesting convergence of three major technological trends: big data, AI, and virtual humans.  Big data are transforming science, scholarship, and virtually every other aspect of the modern society.  AI may be the most transformative technology ever, and it can help us discover complex […]